photo

See also: Photo, and photo-

English

Etymology

Clipping of photograph

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊ.təʊ/, [ˈfəʊtʰəʊ]

• Audio (UK):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʊ.toʊ/, [ˈfŏʊɾoʊ]

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊtəʊ

Noun

photo (plural photos)

1. (informal) A photograph.
   • 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:

     Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.

2. (informal) A photo finish.
   • 2005 June 28, “Racing diary: In the shake-up”, in The Telegraph‎^[1]:

     By this stage, Goof was clearly warming to his theme and, as they flashed past the post together, he reported that it was a photo. "And I don't know or care who won the photo," he concluded.

3. (informal) A digital picture of any kind.

Derived terms

• air photo
• airphoto
• astrophoto
• file photo
• nonphoto
• non-photo blue
• orthophoto
• phlog
• photo album
• photo artist
• photobank
• photobash
• photobiography
• photoblog
• photoblogger
• photoboard
• photobomb
• photobombing
• photobook
• photo booth
• photocall
• photocard
• photocomic
• photo cube
• photo echo
• photo editor
• photo-essay
• photo essay
• photofinisher
• photo finishing
• photofit
• photofitting
• photoholic
• photo kill
• photolab
• photoless
• photolike
• photolog
• photolurker
• photolurking
• photolyze
• photo machine
• photomagazine
• photo magnet
• photomancy
• photomarathon
• photomosaic
• photonovel
• photo-offset
• photo op
• photo pack
• photo paper
• photopaper
• photophobia
• photoplayer
• photo-portrait
• photorealist
• photo-romance
• photosharing
• photoshoot
• photo shoot
• photostory
• photostream
• photowalk
• photowalk
• photoworthy
• phytophotodermatitis
• radiophoto
• stereophoto
• stock photo
• telephoto
• wirephoto

 

Descendants

• → Hausa: hṑtō

Translations

photograph — see photograph

Verb

photo (third-person singular simple present photos, present participle photoing, simple past and past participle photoed)

1. (transitive) To take a photograph of.
   • [1956] 1992 ed., The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter [2]

     What fun to be photoed together, / What luck for a break so opportune. / Oh, what a lark / To be posed in the park / Underneath the adolescent crescent of the moon.

   • 1998, Hans Schmidt, Maverick Marine [3]

     He even had himself photoed helping to hold one of the fire-hose.

   • 2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet [4]

     Always photoing exits. What are all these ways out but rehearsals for his own?

Related terms

• photog
• photographer

Translations

to take a photograph

• Bulgarian: фотографи́рам (bg) (fotografíram), сни́мам (bg) (snímam)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 影 (jing²)

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 拍 (zh) (pāi)

• Dutch: fotograferen (nl)
• Esperanto: foti
• Finnish: valokuvata (fi), kuvata (fi)
• French: photographier (fr)
• Hebrew: צילם (tsilém)
• Hindi: तसवीर लेना (tasvīr lenā)
• Italian: fotografare (it)
• Luganda: okukuba ekifaananyi
• Spanish: instantánea f
• Turkish: fotoğraf çekmek (tr)
• Volapük: fotografön, (older term, obsolete) fotogafön, (older term) litamagön

See also

• photo-
• photosensitive
• photosynthesis, photosynthesize
• photogenic
• photocell
• photo finish
• photo opportunity
• snapshot

Anagrams

• top ho

French

Etymology

Clipping of photographie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔ.to/, /fo.to/

• Audio (France):

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• Audio (France):

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• Rhymes: -o

Noun

photo f (plural photos)

1. photo

Derived terms

• appareil photo
• ne pas y avoir photo

 

Further reading

• “photo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.